I was expecting that at $2,500 it was going to be some small tort case, but no, it was levied by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for “…frustration that lawyers continue to submit briefs containing AI-generated fictitious case citations and other hallucinated material…” (emphasis mine)

It’s astonishing to me the fines aren’t in the $30,000 range considering the immense potential for damage and the wasted time, resources and costs of several attorneys, clerks, witnesses, the judge/panel, administrators, assistants, etc.

Frankly, shouldn’t that be a clear reason to be disbarred? Imagine if before AI you simply just made up case law and fabricated claims/data! That would have been at the very least immediate disciplinary measures/suspension.

And these are people who charge anywhere from $300-2500/hr, just having AI generate their work. Imagine if an attorney, pre-AI had simply hired someone on Fiverr or something to write their appellate brief.

They can’t even be bothered to read and correct the filings? What is it they are actually doing for the billed hours??? Isn’t that also criminal fraud in several ways?